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Tag: #Drinks

Browse our collection of food history articles exploring the legacy, heritage, and stories behind Drinks.

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Amber hojicha tea beside roasted brown tea leaves and a ceramic teapot
drinks

Hojicha

The roasted tea that turned mature leaves and stems into a low-waste aroma of smoke, caramel, daily refreshment, and modern café culture

Japan7 min read
Beige Korean misugaru grain drink beside bowls of roasted barley millet rice and beans
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Misugaru

How rice, barley, beans, millet, roasting, grinding, and portable nourishment became a Korean drink with a new global audience

Korean Peninsula7 min read
Frothy white ayran in a copper cup beside yogurt salt and flatbread
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Ayran

How diluted cultured milk became a cooling companion to bread, meat, travel, urban restaurants, and national drink culture

Anatolia and wider Turkic, West Asian, and Balkan dairy cultures7 min read
Traditional lassi in a tall metal cup beside churned yogurt cardamom and mango
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Lassi

How dahi, water, churning, salt, sugar, fruit, pastoral dairying, and restaurant culture created a drink far broader than mango lassi

Punjab and wider South Asia7 min read
Glass of creamy horchata with cinnamon beside tiger nuts and rice
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Horchata

The cold, milky drink family that began as Mediterranean chufa — and became rice-and-cinnamon agua fresca across Mexico and the United States

Valencia (chufa) / Mexico (rice adaptation)11 min read